Mathematical Sciences 2015-2016 Graduates

June 16, 2016

In Fall 2015 and Spring 2016, Clemson’s Graduate Program in Mathematical Sciences awarded six Ph.D. degrees and eleven M.S. degrees. Some graduates of the program will apply their knowledge and skills to positions in academia and industry, while others will continue their studies at a higher level. These degrees are the culmination of years of hard work, unyielding determination, intense mathematical ability, and excellent faculty advising.

 

The graduates’ names, advisors’ names, and disquisition titles are listed below. Photographs and current/future positions are also included where available.

 

Please join us in congratulating our newest graduates for their outstanding accomplishments!

 

PhD Fall 2015

 

Hewa Arachchige Anuradha Priyadarshani

Advisors: Dr. R. Lund and Dr. Y. Li

Dissertation title: Bayesian Minimum Description Length Techniques for Multiple Changepoint Detection

Current position: Senior lecturer grade II, University of Kelaniya, Dalugama, Sri Lanka

 

Shiyi Tu

Advisor: Dr. X. Sun

Dissertation title: Objective Bayesian Analysis on the Quantile Regression Advisor

Current position: Financial Analyst at Bank of America

 

PhD Spring 2016

 

Michael Dowling

Advisor: Dr. S. Gao

Dissertation title: Exponder Graphs and Good Codes

 

Rachel Grotheer

Advisor: Dr. T. Khan

Dissertation title: Hyperspectial Diffuse Optical Tomography using the Reduced Basis Method and Sparsity Constraints

Fall position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College in Towson, MD.

 

 

 

 

Jason Hedetniemi

Advisor: Dr. K. James

Dissertation title: Problems in Domination and Graph Products

 

Honghai Xu

Advisor: Dr. W. Goddard

Dissertation title: Generalized Colorings of Graphs

 

 

MS Fall 2015

 

Kevin Wayne Dettman

Advisor: Dr. M. Wiecek

Thesis title: Bi-Objective Quadratic Optimization with Application to Portfolio Selection

 

Haodong Li

Advisor: Dr. M. Mitkovski

Thesis title: Multiplier Operators on Framed Hilbert Space

Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program

 

Monica Deni Moralex-Hernandez

Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz

Thesis title: Some new Results for Leray -x discretization

Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program

 

 

 

 

 

 

MS Spring 2016

 

Travis Baumbaugh

Advisor: Dr. F. Manganiello

Thesis title: Results on Common Left/Right Divisors of Skew Polynomials

Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Knoll

Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz

Thesis title: On the Optimal Parameter Choice of Steady NSE with Grad-Div

Current/future position: Mathematics instructor, Rockbridge Academy in Millersville, MD

 

 

 

 

Michael Lamoreux

Advisor: Dr. A. Brown

Thesis title: Empirical Null Estimation via Central Matching with Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

 

 

Matthew Menard

Advisor: Dr. C. Williams

Thesis title: Study of the Fisher-Tippett Theorem with Applications to Problems in Actuarial Science

Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program

 

 

Stefani Mokalled

Advisor: Dr. C. McMahan

Thesis title: Estimating Biomarker Distributions via Pooled Assessments

Current/future position: Research Assistant in biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

 

 

 

 

Lee Phillips

Advisor: Dr. W. Adams

Thesis title: Solvable Cases of the QAP Explained by the Level – 1 RLT

 

 

 

Sijun Shen

Advisor: Dr. X. Sun

Thesis title: Evaluating an Individuals use of the Internet and Online Chat rooms to learn about Health Information

 

 

Camille Zerfas

Advisor: Dr. L. Rebholz

Thesis title: Sensitivity of the Filtering Radius of the rNS Turbulence Model

Current position: Clemson Mathematical Sciences PhD program